RISK ASSESSMENT

With anything we do especially filming it involves risks to ourselves and those involved so we must make sure to take into account what could go wrong and be prepared in case it does. Below is the risk assessment that we will use follow when filming on both dates.

PRODUCTION LOGO AND RESEARCH

In the majority of films and TV programs there will be a production logo which is there to show and advertise the production company who are responsible for creating the media text. Here are a few examples of the most well known production logos- 

20th CENTURY FOX

PIXAR

SPYGLASS ENTERTAINMENT

DREAMWORKS ANIMATION

A key convention of production logos is their simplicity, well for the more popular ones. They tend to stick to a 3/4 colour pallet as less means more when it comes making something look sleek and professional. Some don't all stick to this for example 20th century fox have a more elaborate production logo but it all depends how the company want to portray themselves. The duration of most production logos lasts for about 5/10 seconds giving it enough time to show its purposes but obviously it isn't really appealing to audiences so any longer would be in appropriate. 

For a start up, small and new company which ours would be it would stand to reason that our logo isn't going to be to over the top. We made ours in After Effects using only one visual affect called 'Particle World' which creates a bubble affect to continually appear as if there was a bubble machine. We placed this in the bottom right corner which makes it cover 2/3 of the screen, this was done so we could focus the production name in the higher center. The text itself is pretty basic, the only effect is the fade which makes it fade in and out. The colour scheme is black, white and teal, we used these as they all compliment each other. Black for the background makes the white text stand out more so giving emphasis and the hint of teal with the bubbles gives it a little more so its not just monochrome. The name itself 'WW Productions' came from both our last names starting with a W, again production companies never have really difficult names as the easier and simpler the name makes it more memorable.

Here is a clip of our finished production logo----

SCRIPT

Here is the script that we plan to use for our media production-

PRODUCTION SCHEDULE

Here is the production schedule for the two days we hope to film-

Greig Fraser- CINEMATOGRAPHY influence

Our main influence for the cinematography came from the work of Greig Fraser. 

An example of some of the work that influenced us the most is from the film Foxcatcher, which he uses misty/eerie foggy scenes to portray certain genres/moods throughout. 

Above are two clips from the film, they look very familiar to what we tried to achieve in the below clips.

The use of the foggy setting helped us to achieve a common code and convention of our chosen genre without it looking to generic and cheesy. Also by editing the colour in After Effects using the curve tool it helped us make the most of the setting and weather we filmed in.